Non-refillable bottle.



No. 763,948. PATENTED JULYB, 1904. L. M. ALBERTY & G. S. NIXON.

NON-REFILLABLE BOTTLE.

APPLICATION FILED OUT. 22, 1903.

N0 MODEL.

UNITED STATES LEON M. ALBERTY AND CARL S. NIXON, OF MILWAUKEE,WISCONSIN;

SAID NIXON ASSIGNOR TO THOMAS OONSIN.

Patented July 5, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES, OF MILWAUKEE, W IS- NON-REFILLABLE BOTTLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 763,948, dated July 5,1904.

Application filed October 22 1903.

To all whmn itvnay concern:

Be it known that we, LEON M. ALBERTY and CARL S. NIXON, citizens of theUnited States, and residents of Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukeeand State of WVisconsin, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Non-Refillable Bottles; and we do hereby declare thatthe following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

Our invention has especial reference to means for guarding against abottle being tampered with, as well as means for preventing it frombeing refilled when empty; and it consists in certain peculiarities ofconstruction and combination ofparts, as will be fully set forthhereinafter in connection with the accompanying drawings andsubsequently claimed.

In the said drawings, Figure 1 is avertical sectional view through theupper part of a bottle embodying our present invention. Figs. 2, 3, and4 are transverse sectional views taken,

respectively, on the planes indicated by the lines 2 2, 3 3, and 4 4 inFig. 1.

Referring by numerals to the said drawings, 1 represents the shoulder orupper part of a bottle, and 2 the neck thereof. The said neck is formedwith a straight smooth-walled bore of desired diameter in its upperpart, as indicated at '3, and below this of a similar bore of lessdiameter, as shown at 1, which latter is contracted further by the innerannular flange 5, below which the bore is enlarged into a substantiallyoval opening 6, whose smaller end is downward, thus affording a verycontracted passage 8 into the interior of the bottle proper, thispassage way being normally closed by a ball 7. At apointjustintermediate between the lower end of the upper bore 3 and the upper endof the narrow bore 4 these two bore ends are united by an oblique-walledannular groove 9, cut into the neck of the bottle, as shown, whichweakens the neck at this point for a purpose to be presently described.1O designates the neck-core, which is made, preferably, of glass with arounded top 11, crescent-shaped in section, and the edge of which topwill just pass down through the upper bore 3, while the lower part ofsaid semi No. 178,037. (No model.)

core is of less diameter and will fit snugly within the bore 4, restingon the flange 5, and when thus in place (and secured permanently to theinner surface of the bottle-neck, as by cement or other suitable means)the edge of the core-top 11 will project slightly into the describedgroove 9, the said core being rounded out under the top to form theannular groove 12, which communicates with the vertical edge grooves 1313. They communicate with the exterior annular groove 14, and thatcommunicates with the vertical interior channels 15 15, which in turncommunicate with the oval-shaped bore 6. In practice the bottle, withits neck-bore entirely free, is filled with the desired liquid, and thenthe ball 7 is dropped to place, resting loosely on the walls of thepassage-way 8. Next the core 10 is inserted to place and secured therepermanently, and finally the corkv 16 is applied.

WVhen it is desired to pour liquid from the bottle, the cork is removedand the bottle inverted and the ball 7 will roll away from its seat, thepassage of the liquid being through the passage-way 8, bore 6, channels15 15, annular groove 14, edge grooves 13 13, annular grooves 12 and 9,and neck-bore 3; but if it was sought to refill the bottle the ball 7would prevent this, and if an attempt was made to insert a wire throughthe passageway of the liquid the said wire would curl up within therounded annular groove 12 under the top 11, if the wire was ofsufiiciently yielding material, and if not, pressure of the wire wouldserve to break the weakened neck at the line of the groove 9 therein,and hence in either event the attempt would be a failure and the bottlepractically non-refillable.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

Abottle, having aneck formed with a bore of varying diameters, andweakened by a bevel-walled groove on a line between the upper widerportion and intermediate narrower portion of said neck-bore; a corehaving vertical liquid-passages therethrough out of alinement with eachother, and a rounded top separated by an annular groove from the body ofl the county of Milwaukee and State of Visconsaid core, and the edge ofwhich top core prosin, in the presence of two Witnesses. jects withinthe bevel-walled groove in the LEON M ALBERTY bottle-neck; and a ballseated within the con- CARL S I 5 tracted lower end of the neck-bore,below the c l said core. \Vitnesses:

In testimony that we claim the foregoing we H. Gr. UNDERWOOD, havehereunto set our hands, at Milwaukee, in HUeo FAI'IL.

